Petroleum Storage Tank Manufacturers Conference from API is Oct. 17-20, 2011

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger would like to let you know that the American Petroleum Institutes (API) Storage Tank Conference is being held this year on October 17-20, 2011 at the Westin Casuarina in Las Vegas, NV.

API Storage Tank Conference & Expo  (October 19-20)
API is the world leader in tank standards. The annual API Storage Tank Conference provides attendees with new information on tank-related research, latest technologies, and API petroleum standards. The conference features multiple panels and speakers that will help you understand the requirements to maintain tank integrity while complying with new and existing environmental rules. Several members of the API tank standards committees will be on-site, allowing plenty of opportunities to network with colleagues and establish new business connections. 

API Safe Tank Entry Workshop (October 17-18)
Attendees learn the basics of ensuring safe tank entry and maintenance. Topics cover tank decommissioning, isolation, degassing, safe tank entry, cleaning, return to service, and associated work. This hands-on program also provides an understanding of atmospheric monitoring, with instruction in the operation, calibration, and maintenance of field instruments that sample and analyze levels of oxygen, gases, and vapors. Attendees have the chance to calibrate and use the instruments. NFPA will award 0.7 Continuing Education Units for each day of instruction.

You can register online for the API Storage Tank Conference here.

Registration fees are available to download here.

If you would like to have information about the Bendel custom storage tank manufacturing process for the petrochemical industry, please call Jim Rozsa  rozsa@bendelcorp.com or Vince Petrucci petrucci@bendelcorp.com at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger headquarters in Charlotte, NC at 866-596-5112.  Or if you are in TX, AR, LA or OK, please call our regional sales manager Fred Weissbach in Houston at 832-436-4626 or email weissbach@bendelcorp.com.

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Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger Expands into Houston, TX with Fred Weissbach

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger has expanded deeper into the Southern USA to service customers in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.  To strengthen the Bendel brand and product line into this region, we are introducing our new regional sales manager for these states, Fred Weissbach.  Fred will be headquartered in Houston, TX.

Bendel has a long-standing reputation across the country and the south and southeast states are very important to our business.  “We are strengthening our presence with new and existing customers in the petroleum and chemical industries in these states,” said Fred Weissbach.  “Our sales and marketing emphasis will extend into these states with our heat exchanger product line, as well as our traditional storage tank and pressure vessel products.”

Fred Weissbach can be reached at 832-436-4626 (office) or 832-704-0806 (cell) and his email address is weissbach@bendelcorp.com.

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Heat Exchanger Fabricators & Manufacturers Complete a Custom Heat Exchanger Project.

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger fabricates custom heat exchangers for many different industries and fabricators, including the piping fabrication market.  The two heat exchangers in these photos were fabricated for a piping fabricator’s project.

The piping fabrication industry fabricates custom pipes and equipment for markets like Medical Gas, Pre-Insulated Underground, Jacketed, Chemical, Process, Sanitary, Steam, Hydronic, and Plumbing.  Other industries that benefit from piping fabricators include Power Generation, Food & Beverage, Pulp & Paper, Automotive, Chemical & Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical, Refinery Piping, and Water/Wastewater Treatment.

If your company would like to learn more about Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger and our custom heat exchanger fabrication program, please contact Bendel at 866-596-5112 or email Vince Petruccior Vivek Patel at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger.  We look forward to talking with you soon!

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Storage Tank Fabricator & Heat Exchanger Fabricator – Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger Brochure Overview

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger has a long history of service in the storage tank, pressure vessel, heating and cooling media, and the heat exchanger fabrication industry. 

For more than 45 years, the Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger team has been fabricating custom Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel and Nickel Alloy vessels per UL, API or ASME specifications. Our custom above-ground storage tanks are designed, engineered and fabricated up to 75,000 gallon capacities by teams of experienced and dedicated professionals.

Read about all of our Bendel capabilities in our company brochure:  View & Download Our Company Brochure from Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger.

If you need cost estimates or more information about custom storage tank, pressure vessel or heat exchanger fabrication, please call Bendel at 866-596-5112 Toll Free.  We look forward to serving you soon!

 

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Heat Exchanger Engineering & Storage Tank Engineering from Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger.

The Bendel engineering and drafting teams are highly-trained, experienced and focused professionals.  Our internal system stresses definition of design, testing, fabricating, and quality control at each stage of development.

Our engineers and draftsmen are highly-trained and experienced with the following design and engineering software:

• AutoCAD: Design and dimensional layout of Storage Tanks, Pressure Vessels, Reactors and Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers.
• Compress: Mechanical design of Pressure Vessels, Reactors and Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers.
• HTRI: Thermal analysis of Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers.
• Custom “In-House” programs: Developed by our experienced engineering staff for the efficient creation of Bill of Materials and Customer Quotations.

We are frequently called upon by our clients to address unusual and challenging vessel design scenarios, and our engineers currently design to the following industry-recognized codes:

• ASME Section VIII, Div. 1 (U & R Stamps)
• TEMA
• API-650, 620 and 12F
• UL-142
• NFPA-22

The Bendel engineering team has a primary focus to design and produce best-in-class mechanical designs to meet all technical and mechanical industry standards.

Bendel Corporation has developed our Quality Assurance Program around the requirements of the ASME Code (Section VIII, Division I) for the design and fabrication of shop built Tanks, Pressure Vessels and Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers.

The Program is documented in the Bendel Quality Control Manual and is reviewed annually to ensure compliance with all of the latest revisions of the ASME Code.

If you would like more information about our Bendel heat exchanger design and fabricating program, please call us at 866-596-5112 or contact  Vince Petrucci or Vivek Patel at Bendel.

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Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger Launches New Company Name and Creative Brand

Bendel announced today that our company is launching a new name and a new creative brand as we move into the second decade of 2000!

“Our new company brand name will be known as Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger,” said Bendel president Bill Beaver.  “Bendel has quickly grown to be known as a premier designer and fabricator of heat exchangers, and we needed to make a market adjustment to reflect our growing customer demand.”

Bendel began manufacturing carbon steel tanks in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1963 under the name of Atlas Steel Products Company. The name was changed to Bendel Corporation in 1982 when the manufacturing division was spun-off from the parent company. Primary ownership has never changed hands to date.

“In recent years, we have seen a growing demand from new and existing customers for our custom heat exchanger engineering design and fabrication product,” Beaver says.  “Bendel has invested in state-of-the-art milling and drilling machine designed to provide close tolerance machining of tubesheets used in the manufacture of our custom Shell & Tubesheet Heat Exchangers.”

Bendel uses the Quickmill Intimidator as the superior solution for large part machining and drilling accuracy. The Quickmill gives us increased production efficiency while improving the quality and performance of our Shell & Tubesheet Heat Exchangers. The Intimidator Gantry 96 (96″ x 185.5″) provides our craftsmen with a powerful, precise tool that performs flawlessly time after time.

“Bendel will continue to design and fabricate our storage tanks and pressure vessel products,” added Beaver.  “This company has had a fantastic period of growth over the past 49 years, and we are initiating our business plan to keep Bendel on the growth path for the next 50 years.”

For more information about our Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger program, please contact our Bendel heat exchanger design and fabricating program at 866-596-5112 or contact  Vince Petrucci or Vivek Patel at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger.

 

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Stainless Steel Tank & Heat Exchanger Fabricator with Free Engineering Calculator!

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger invites you to download our handy engineering calculator tools to use freely on your desktop!

It’s easy to do.  Just visit this link and follow the easy download instructions!

Our free desktop tools give you calculators that you can use to calculate Pressure, Capacity, Flow, Temperature, Volume and Finishes.  Every calculation that you would need to make to design and configure a tank or vessel is contained within the calculators.

We also included handy conversion tools within the calculators for Surface Finish, Grit Size, Mass, Density, Length, Volume, Pressure/Vacuum, and Temperature.

We hope you enjoy using the Bendel Desktop Tools Widget and please give us a call at 1-866-596-5112 if you have any questions that we may help you with.  Thank you and have a great 2011!

 

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Heat Exchanger Fabricator Has Flow Arrangement Options

We have been posting some “behind-the-scenes” and educational information about Heat Exchangers, how they work, what is the science behind them, etc.  And now we want to take a look at “flow arrangement” and how we classify flow arrangement when fabricating our Heat Exchangers.

Basically, there are two primary classifications of heat exchangers according to their flow arrangement. In parallel-flow heat exchangers (at left), the two fluids enter the exchanger at the same end, and travel in parallel to one another to the other side.

In counter-flow heat exchangers (at right) the fluids enter the exchanger from opposite ends. The counter current design is most efficient, in that it can transfer the most heat from the heat (transfer) medium.

For efficiency, heat exchangers are designed to maximize the surface area of the wall between the two fluids, while minimizing resistance to fluid flow through the exchanger. The exchanger’s performance can also be affected by the addition of fins or corrugations in one or both directions, which increase surface area and may channel fluid flow or induce turbulence.

In a cross-flow heat exchanger (at left), the fluids travel roughly perpendicular to one another through the exchanger.

The driving temperature across the heat transfer surface varies with position, but an appropriate mean temperature can be defined. In most simple systems this is the “log mean temperature difference” (LMTD). Sometimes direct knowledge of the LMTD is not available and the NTU (Number of Transfer Units) method is used.

If you would like more information about our Bendel heat exchanger design and fabricating program, please call us at 866-596-5112 or contact  Vince Petrucci or Vivek Patel at Bendel.

 

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Heat Exchanger Fouling Can be a Nightmare Maintenance Issue with Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers!

Fouling occurs when a fluid goes through the heat exchanger, and the impurities in the fluid precipitate onto the surface of the tubes. Precipitation of these impurities can be caused by:

• Frequent use of the heat exchanger
• Not cleaning the heat exchanger regularly
• Reducing the velocity of the fluids moving through the heat exchanger
• Over-sizing of the heat exchanger

Effects of fouling are more abundant in the cold tubes of the heat exchanger than in the hot tubes. This is because impurities are less likely to be dissolved in a cold fluid, because for most substances, solubility increases as temperature increases. A notable exception is hard water where the opposite is true.

Fouling reduces the cross sectional area for heat to be transferred and causes an increase in the resistance to heat transfer across the heat exchanger. This is because the thermal conductivity of the fouling layer is low. This reduces the overall heat transfer coefficient and efficiency of the heat exchanger. This in turn, can lead to an increase in pumping and maintenance costs.

The conventional approach to fouling control combines the “blind” application of biocides and anti-scale chemicals with periodic lab testing. This often results in the excessive use of chemicals with the inherent side effects of accelerating system corrosion and increasing toxic waste – not to mention the cost of unnecessary treatments. There are however solutions for continuous fouling monitoring in liquid environments with sensors measuring both fouling thickness and temperature, allowing cleaning effectiveness to be monitored and chemical usage to be minimized.

If you would like more information about our Bendel heat exchanger design and fabricating program, please call us at 866-596-5112 or contact  Vince Petrucci or Vivek Patel at Bendel.  www.bendelcorp.com

 

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U-tube Heat Exchanger Design and Fabrication from Bendel Corporation

There are several different types of shell and tube heat exchangers that Bendel designs and fabricates for clients of varying types for varying uses!  The U-tube heat exchanger is a multi-use heat exchanger that many of our clients use in their various manufacturing processes.

A shell and tube heat exchanger is a class of heat exchanger designs. It is the most common type of heat exchanger in oil refineries and other large chemical processes, and is suited for higher-pressure applications. As its name implies, this type of heat exchanger consists of a shell (a large pressure vessel) with a bundle of tubes inside it. One fluid runs through the tubes, and another fluid flows over the tubes (through the shell) to transfer heat between the two fluids. The set of tubes is called a tube bundle, and may be composed by several types of tubes: plain, longitudinally finned, etc.

Two fluids, of different starting temperatures, flow through the heat exchanger. One flows through the tubes (the tube side) and the other flows outside the tubes but inside the shell (the shell side). Heat is transferred from one fluid to the other through the tube walls, either from tube side to shell side or vice verse. The fluids can be either liquids or gases on either the shell or the tube side. In order to transfer heat efficiently, a large heat transfer area should be used, leading to the use of many tubes. In this way, waste heat can be put to use. This is an efficient way to conserve energy.

Heat exchangers with only one phase (liquid or gas) on each side can be called one-phase or single-phase heat exchangers. Two-phase heat exchangers can be used to heat a liquid to boil it into a gas (vapor), sometimes called boilers, or cool a vapor to condense it into a liquid (called condensers), with the phase change usually occurring on the shell side. Boilers in steam engine locomotives are typically large, usually cylindrically-shaped shell-and-tube heat exchangers. In large power plants with steam-driven turbines, shell-and-tube surface condensers are used to condense the exhaust steam exiting the turbine into condensate water which is recycled back to be turned into steam in the steam generator.

There can be many variations on the shell and tube design. Typically, the ends of each tube are connected to plenums (sometimes called water boxes) through holes in tubesheets. The tubes may be straight or bent in the shape of a U, called U-tubes.

If you would like more information about our Bendel heat exchanger design and fabricating program, please call us at 866-596-5112 or contact  Vince Petrucci or Vivek Patel at Bendel.

 

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Storage Tank & Pressure Vessel Fabricators - Bendel in Charlotte!

A STATE-OF-THE-ART MANUFACTURING & FABRICATION FACILITY.


Bendel’s modern fabrication facility encompasses more than 65,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing area on a 12-acre site located less than 1 mile from Interstate Hwy’s I-85 & I-77.

Originally built in 1962, we have continually updated and maintained modern equipment and a best practices attitude in the manufacture of Tanks,Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers.

Our current equipment list includes:

(10) overhead cranes

(34+) MIG, TIG & SAW welding machines

(3) plate rolls (6', 12', 16') wide

Angle rolls

1/2" x 12' shear

300 ton Press brake

3/8" x 17'circle shear

16' long cold wire TIG seam welder

15-1/2' boom manipulator

8' x 15' Quickmill milling and drilling machine